The Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) is warn­ing that it is pre­pared to shut down all op­er­a­tions at Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Ser­vices of Trinidad and To­ba­go Ltd (TSTT) with im­me­di­ate ef­fect if man­age­ment backs away from a ten per cent wage in­crease the union says was agreed to for work­ers.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­ers’ Union (CWU) sec­re­tary gen­er­al Joanne Ogeer is call­ing on Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein to keep his promise that Hilton work­ers’ jobs are safe.

Hilton has sig­nalled that it wants to con­tin­ue its 64-year pres­ence at the State-owned Hilton Trinidad and Con­fer­ence Cen­tre, even as its lease re­mains on course to ter­mi­nate on Sep­tem­ber 18 if a long-term agree­ment with Gov­ern­ment is not reached.

En­hance­ments be­ing made on the north­ern side of the Queen’s Park Sa­van­nah to ac­com­mo­date the Au­gust 31 In­de­pen­dence Day Pa­rade will be re­moved af­ter the event, says Min­is­ter in the Min­istry of Hous­ing and Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress Shad­ow MP for Port-of-Spain North/St Ann’s West Phillip Alexan­der.

The le­gal bat­tle over the trag­ic death of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Jo­gie in To­ba­go is on the verge of head­ing to court.

The Gov­ern­ment has in­creased the pro­duc­tion of de­sali­nat­ed wa­ter as it pre­pares for the im­pact of El Niño and wors­en­ing drought con­di­tions across Trinidad and To­ba­go.

A fam­i­ly of sev­en has been left home­less af­ter a fire de­stroyed their home along the Ch­agua­nas Main Road yes­ter­day af­ter­noon.

Twen­ty-five-year-old Shyana Ruiz was laid to rest yes­ter­day, four days af­ter her ex-boyfriend and his teenage girl­friend were charged with her mur­der.

The death of 41-year-old Kwasi Dion Gill, who was shot dead in Bel­mont on Sat­ur­day, has sparked an out­pour­ing of trib­utes from or­gan­i­sa­tions that re­mem­bered him for his com­pas­sion, courage and com­mit­ment to vul­ner­a­ble peo­ple.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are con­tin­u­ing in­to the killing of a woman whose body was found se­mi-nude in­side an un­li­censed ve­hi­cle near the John John Tow­ers, South Quay, yes­ter­day morn­ing.

An ac­tive trop­i­cal wave in the cen­tral trop­i­cal At­lantic is ex­pect­ed to be­gin af­fect­ing the South­ern Wind­ward Is­lands from Thurs­day, but the Trinidad and To­ba­go Me­te­o­ro­log­i­cal Ser­vice (TTMS) says the sys­tem cur­rent­ly has a low chance of de­vel­op­ing in­to a trop­i­cal cy­clone.

Po­lice seized 53 kilo­grammes of cannabis with an es­ti­mat­ed street val­ue of $1.53 mil­lion and 20 rounds of 9mm am­mu­ni­tion dur­ing search­es in Matelot and Grande Riv­iere on Sun­day.